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Hawaii government to rent out library land

Thursday, 5 April 2018
In the US, the Hawaii state government has put forth a bill to lease library land and facilities to private companies as a way of generating revenue, reports the Hawaii...

New ‘Books+Publishing’ reviews out now 

Thursday, 5 April 2018
Books+Publishing’s latest Reviews newsletter contains 16 reviews of books publishing in May and June. Historian Peter Cochrane's novel The Making of Martin Sparrow (Viking, May) received five stars from reviewer...

Podcast spotlight: Kill Your Darlings podcast

Thursday, 5 April 2018
Established in 2013 and redeveloped into an hour-long format in 2014, the Kill Your Darlings podcast features 'interviews, readings and discussions about books, culture and the arts in Australia and...

Shortlist for the 2017 Nakata Brophy Prize announced

Thursday, 5 April 2018
Overland journal has announced the shortlist for the fifth Nakata Brophy Short Fiction and Poetry Prize for Young Indigenous Writers. The shortlisted writers and their works are: Jazz Money, for ‘as...

Royalle wins 2018 Red Room Poetry fellowship

Thursday, 5 April 2018
Poet and performer Candy Royalle has won the 2018 Red Room Poetry fellowship. Royalle was chosen from a shortlist of 11 poets. The prize is worth $10,000 in total, including...

Silber wins 2018 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

pen faulkner logo Thursday, 5 April 2018
In the US, Joan Silber has won the 2018 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her novel Improvement (Counterpoint), reports the Washington Post. Silber's novel was selected from a shortlist of five...

Affirm partners with Tablo on crime writing project

Wednesday, 4 April 2018
Small publisher Affirm Press has partnered with Australian online publishing platform Tablo to review a selection of crime writing published on the Tablo platform. Affirm will read submissions on the...

Croggon to publish new middle-grade fiction with Walker

Wednesday, 4 April 2018
Alison Croggon, author of the 'Pellinor' series for young adults, will publish her first middle-grade fantasy adventure title, The Threads of Magic, with Walker Books. Walker Books acquired world rights in all...

UK bookstores form Independent Bookshops Alliance

Wednesday, 4 April 2018
A group of around 130 independent booksellers in the UK have formed the Independent Bookshops Alliance to give independent bookstores a louder voice in the industry, reports the Big Issue....

Kostakis wins IBBY Ena Noël award

Wednesday, 4 April 2018
Will Kostakis’ YA novel The Sidekicks (Penguin) has won the 2018 Ena Noël Award, a biennial prize administered by the Australian branch of the International Board on Books for Young...

Literary direct action: Meera Atkinson on ‘Traumata’

Tuesday, 3 April 2018
Meera Atkinson’s exploration of the effects of trauma, Traumata (UQP, May), is a powerful, personal memoir doubling as a philosophical treatise. ‘This is a humane, thought-provoking and heartbreaking addition to...

Bernard wins 2018 Ted Hughes Award

Tuesday, 3 April 2018
In the UK, London-born poet Jay Bernard has won the 2018 Ted Hughes Award for their multimedia performance Surge: Side A, reports the Bookseller. Surge: Side A explores the 1981 New Cross fire,...

Aurealis Awards 2017 winners announced

Tuesday, 3 April 2018
The winners of the 2017 Aurealis Awards for the best Australian science-fiction, fantasy and horror writing published in 2017 have been announced. The winning titles were: Best science-fiction novel From...

Australians nominated for 2018 Hugo Awards

Tuesday, 3 April 2018
Several Australian writers and artists are among the finalists for this year's Hugo Awards for science-fiction. Australian author Foz Meadows has been named a finalist in the Best Fan Writer...

Ditmar Awards 2018 winners announced

Tuesday, 3 April 2018
The winners of the 2018 Ditmar Awards for Australian science-fiction, fantasy and horror writing were announced at the 43rd Swancon Convention in Perth on 1 April. The winners are: Best novel...

Revenue flat at PRH in 2017

Thursday, 29 March 2018
Penguin Random House (PRH) parent company Bertelsmann has reported revenue at the publisher in 2017 was stable, down a marginal 0.1% to €3.36 billion (A$4.39 billion) compared to €3.4 billion...

No ‘Daily’ until 3 April

Thursday, 29 March 2018
The Books+Publishing Daily newsletter will not be published tomorrow, 30 March, or on Monday, 2 April, due to the Easter public holidays. The next Daily will be published Tuesday, 3 April and next week's Weekly Book...

Out west: WestWords executive director Michael Campbell

Wednesday, 28 March 2018
WestWords is an independent company based in Parramatta that began its life as The Western Sydney Young People’s Literature Development Project in 2007. Established to address the low level of literature...

 

 

 

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